Selected Readings in EconomicsGinn, 1907 - 705 páginas |
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... Labor and the American Federation of Labor . By William Kirk . 613 3. The Hours of Labor 640 XX . SOCIALISM 1. The Communist Manifesto 668 2. Schaeffle's Criticism of Socialism in its General Economic Aspects . 681 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ...
... Labor and the American Federation of Labor . By William Kirk . 613 3. The Hours of Labor 640 XX . SOCIALISM 1. The Communist Manifesto 668 2. Schaeffle's Criticism of Socialism in its General Economic Aspects . 681 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ...
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... labor has been given to each acre of New England soil to put it into arable condition after the forest has been removed ; nearly as much labor has to be given to removing the forest and undergrowth : so that each cultivated acre in this ...
... labor has been given to each acre of New England soil to put it into arable condition after the forest has been removed ; nearly as much labor has to be given to removing the forest and undergrowth : so that each cultivated acre in this ...
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... labor to each acre of land . In the glaciated districts , as before remarked , this labor of preparation was nearly doubled . The result was that the area of tillage only slowly expanded as the population grew denser , and the ...
... labor to each acre of land . In the glaciated districts , as before remarked , this labor of preparation was nearly doubled . The result was that the area of tillage only slowly expanded as the population grew denser , and the ...
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... labor required to produce one bushel of corn on an average declined from 4 hours and 34 minutes to 41 minutes , and the cost of the human labor to produce this bushel declined from 35 cents to 10 cents . In the earlier years the plow ...
... labor required to produce one bushel of corn on an average declined from 4 hours and 34 minutes to 41 minutes , and the cost of the human labor to produce this bushel declined from 35 cents to 10 cents . In the earlier years the plow ...
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... labor was assisted only by the comparatively rude and inefficient implements of the day , and those of the present time , when hand labor has not only the assistance of highly efficient and perfected implements and machines , but has ...
... labor was assisted only by the comparatively rude and inefficient implements of the day , and those of the present time , when hand labor has not only the assistance of highly efficient and perfected implements and machines , but has ...
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Página 673 - The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive...
Página 288 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Página 679 - The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history.
Página 671 - The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.
Página 671 - ... natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — free trade. In one word, for exploitation,...
Página 107 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands ; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Página 59 - Since the days when the fleet of Columbus sailed into the waters of the New World, America has been another name for opportunity, and the people of the United States have taken their tone from the incessant expansion which has not only been open but has even been forced upon them. He would be a rash prophet who should assert that the expansive character of American life has now entirely ceased. Movement has been its dominant fact and, unless this training has no effect upon a people, the American...
Página 113 - People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Página 295 - ... without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.
Página 681 - The essential condition for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour.